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Outsourcing Experiences @ University of Nevada, Reno

Outsourcing Experiences @ University of Nevada, Reno. NLA CONFERENCE October 4, 2007 Carson City, Nevada Vicki Toy Smith University of Nevada, Reno. Vendor considerations. Vendors are willing to work with customers to set up profiles Profiles can be changed

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Outsourcing Experiences @ University of Nevada, Reno

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  1. Outsourcing Experiences @ University of Nevada, Reno NLA CONFERENCE October 4, 2007 Carson City, Nevada Vicki Toy Smith University of Nevada, Reno

  2. Vendor considerations • Vendors are willing to work with customers to set up profiles • Profiles can be changed • Best to consider options/desired outcomes during initial stages of planning • Shelf-ready programs beneficial

  3. Outsourcing possibilities • Bibliographic records can be purchased • Shelf ready programs for collection development • Authority control can be outsourced through vendors • Recon and/or reclassification projects can be outsourced • Metadata/digitization outsourcing available

  4. Need to examine departmental procedures prior to outsourcing • Look at departmental needs • Talk to other vendors offering same services • Examine cost and manpower • Balance quality and quantity • Investigate local network and workflow issues • Examine problem identification and resolution following record loads

  5. One outsourcing venue • Yankee Book Peddler is the vendor for UNR’s popular book collection • YBP is the vendor for UNR’s Juvenile collection (prize winning books) • UNR has a shelf-ready profile set up with YBP • www.ybp.com/

  6. Shelf ready outsourcing • Blackwell provides UNR with a shelf-ready collection development program • Profiles are coordinated with BNA representative and subject bibliographers • Variety of disciplines covered in the shelf-ready program

  7. Enhancement of OPAC records • Blackwell enhances OPAC records with tables of contents • BNA also enhances our records with summary notes • BNA’s enhancement service is used for newly added print monographs • www.blackwell.com/

  8. Electronic resources • MARC records are purchased for some electronic books and other electronic resources • Books 24 x 7--MARC records are loaded into the online catalog; UNR provides file of deleted records to vendor: www.books24x7.com/ • CRC Press books: www.crcpress.com/ • NetLibrary booksare purchased by UNR and bibliographic records areobtained from OCLC: www.oclc.org/ • Rand publications: www.rand.org/

  9. Electronic resources • Some electronic resources are available for free • Staff needs to check designated vendors websites for new electronic resources to add to online catalog • California e-books: www.californiaebooks.com/ • Some California e-books not free

  10. Serials Outsourcing • A-Z list outsourcing available from various vendors • Serials Solutions provides A-Z lists; MARC records for specific collections • EBSCO also provides A-Z lists • UNR creates its own A-Z lists; uses Serials Solutions MARC records • www.serialssolutions.com/

  11. Authority Control Outsourcing • Vendors such as MARCIVE provide authority control for libraries • MARCIVE does authority control on names and subjects (LC and Mesh) for UNR • UNR sends new bibliographic records on a monthly basis to MARCIVE • Vendor follows up with new authority records (sent electronically to UNR) • UNR has found it easy to update bibliographic records through MARCIVE • UNR handles its own series authority control

  12. Cover images for OPAC • UNR has switched to Amazon for cover images in the online catalog • No cost to purchase cover images with Amazon • Araby Greene changed WWW options in INNOPAC to add cover images to UNR’s online catalog • www.amazon.com/

  13. Recon project outsourcing • UNR has used Backstage for a Dewey recon/reclass project and an LC recon project • UNR provided vendor with shelflist cards • Backstage supplied MARC records • Follow-up was a consideration on selecting • www.bslw.com/

  14. Digitization/metadata outsourcing possibilities • Digitization/metadata projects are a consideration for some libraries • There is an technical services process to scan and OCR items for the Basque Studies Department • Lister Technologies provides content digitization and metadata extraction; storage of digital content and metadata • Lister Technologies has guaranteed 99.995% accuracy in digitization • www.listertechnologies.com/

  15. One final note – Thank you to UNR colleagues • Lou Amestoy • Betsy Dixon • Araby Greene • Linda Perry • Livi Sullivan • Paoshan Yue

  16. Thank you! Vicki Toy Smith, Principal Cataloger University of Nevada, Reno vicki@unr.edu www2.library.unr.edu/vicki/

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